I’ve recently been working with a new piece of graphics software. Affinity Designer is a combo vector and paint program. Very powerful yet reasonably priced. I thought I’d whip up a quick background for Kuumba but the more I worked with Designer the more I enjoyed the experience.
Imani’s not a Black Magic Woman, she’s a Magic Black Woman. The magic’s in her smile, her walk, the way she carries herself. She’s self assured, confident, insightful, sophisticated, a healer, philosopher and sage. Stop by her botanica some time for a palm reading or healing herbs. Stick around and she’ll teach you…
My last illo featured Ujima and Imani dressed up Egyptian style. Unfortunately Imani’s lovely outfit was overshadowed by Ujima and his pharonic antics. So I designed a brand new gown just so Imani can strut her stuff. I hope you like it. Not done yet. I think there’s one more outfit in Imani’s closet waiting for the…
Imani is amused: “Ujima got a bit carried away in his pharaoh’s costume. ‘Come on to the party he said. It’ll be fun.’ Now he’s trying to lord it over folks like some third rate King Tut.”
Ujima is not amused: “Just to be clear, I’m not trying to be King Tut. I’m Ramses II, the Great. He was a great builder who created more monuments than any pharaoh in history, and a personal hero of mine”
A bit of holiday fun with Ujima as Ramses II and Imani as Nefertiti.
These just came in… and they’re looking sweeeeet! 8″ x 10″, full color, high quality, printed mini posters of all 7 Kinara’s Children characters. Yeah, they may look familiar but this is the first time they’ve been available at this size. Plus we now have the two characters, Ujima and Ujamaa, that I’ve been updating this year….
So i had promised to post my finished images from the Artists Challenge I created for myself in the spring. Well it’s taken a while to get these up but here they are. To refresh your memory if you hadn’t seen my original post, I created seven images in seven days. Considering my output has…
Kuji’s ready to Party! Black Panther Party: 50 years 1966–2016 Background posters by Emory Douglas This image is a play off the iconic photo of Huey Newton from back in their heyday. I’ve had this idea in my head for quite some time and had slowly collected props and such to use in it. Somehow it…
